Adjustable strap fastening



Aug. 20, 1935. F. HIRSH 2,011,634

ADJUSTABLE STRAP FASTENING Filed Sept. 21, 1955 1 M HCQK INVENTOR arm,

ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 20, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Fred Hirsh, New York, N. Y., assignor to Adjusta Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application September 21, 1933, Serial No. 690,369 2 Claims. (01. 24200 This invention relates to a strap fastening-by either side of the opening, in convex curves along whic straps-shoulder, hose supporter and simithe outer edges and in convex-concave curves lar straps, for example-may be adiustably sealong. the inner edges of the two sections to form cured. to articles of clothing, more particularly the two inturned rounded ears l0, I0.

1921, and of July 2, 1929 with respect not only of this looped tape are to be attached to the hem m to the form of the slide fastener itself but also of the garment The shoulders 8 8 of the bar with respect to the way both in which the fastener engage this tape and so'tend to prevent the 18 attached to the garment and in which the shifting of the bar within the loop, or of the loop strap is adjustably secured thereto. along the bar, to thereby draw the tape to one or In particular, women find it desirable'to frethe other end of the adjacent slot in the fastener.

quently remove the shoulder straps of brassires The strap C 18 adjustably secured to the and corsets, as, for instance, to substitute for fastener by passing its free end back through the straps of one color other straps of a different slot 5 behind the bar 2, and forward through color, and experience has shown that many users the slot 6 and then inserting both folds of the of garments equipped with the strap fastenings looped strap in the slot 1 by passing them either of my earlier patents have experiencd. difficulty together or one at a time through the central in threading the straps in the fasteners in the opening 9. The free end of the strap 18 behind manner therein shown and describeda difilculty and so concealed by the main part thereof, which which has been minimized in my present imis a desirable feature The offset of the bar 3 provements. accommodates the back fold of the looped strap The invention will be understood by reference and so prevents an outward bulge of the front to the accompanying drawing, in whichfold, while the inturned rounded ears of the for- Figure 1 is a face or plan view of the new ward bar serve to spread the folds of the strap slide fastener in its preferred form, Fig. 2 is a towards the ends of the slot and so to prevent view showing in section the fastener equipped them from being drawn therefrom through the with a looped section of tape or ribbon by which central opening, which consequently can be made it may be secured to the hem of a garment and relatively wide. v

an end of astrap ad ustably secured therein and The fastening, as will readily be seen, is a Fig 3 is a sectional view of the fastener on the secure one and can be effected with ease since 85 in 3 of i there is nothing to obstruct the slots through As illustrated, the fastening consists of the which the strap is passed.

S de st a op d Section f a e B by The invention can be variously modified in its which the rear end of the fastener is attached to al ta ls, w thin the scope of the appended the hemm d d of a a m n an the strap 0 claims, without departing from the spirit or 40 an end of which 15 threaded through the slots of sacrificing the substantial advantages thereof and so adiustably secured to the fastener w t I 1 as and deslre t secure by The fastener A is stamped out from a thin plate Letters t t of preferably rustless metal and has four trans- A slide fa tener of the-type described verse bars I, 2, 3 and 4, with intermediate slots prising a 'plate cut away to form t outer and The inner edge of the rear two inner bars and three to a p n s fly ofisets at its ends to a plane behind and below the plane of the other parts of the fastener, and the plane of the other bars, and the forward outer bar forward outer bar 4 is cut away centrally, to proonly being t away centrally t provide an openvlde an openmg 9 t0 the Outer Slot 7 While the ing therethrough to the ad acent slot and having adja nt ds of i s w s t ns a r d and the two sections thereof converted into rounded 2 v 2,011,634 outer edges around the ends and back along a inner bar and from back to front through the portion of the inner edges and then merging in middle intermediate slot and thence over the a concave curvature. front of the forward inner bar and then having 2. A .siide fastener according to claim 1 atboth free end and body of the strap inserted in tached to a garment by a section of tape looped to pass from front to back through the forward about the rear outer bar and with a strap adintermediate slot and thence behind the sections justably secured therein by the passage of its of the forward outer bar.

free end from front to back thereof through the 1 FRED HIRSH.

rear intermediate slot and thence behind the rear 

